Regional Political Sub Cultures : The State Of Florida

The legislative framework of a country refers to the process of creating, utilization, and governing of laws. In the United States, the government of each of the 50 states is structured in accordance with their respective constitution and although not required, each are modeled after the federal government, consisting of the three branches: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. Each of the state governments are also organized as a presidential system where the governor is the head of the state. Due to each state having their own governor as their representative, their legislative framework will vary with each state. For this paper, I will be comparing the legislative framework of Florida with the state of California.

Culture is the Backbone of a society, when something/someone tries to alter it or go against it everyone will notice. In this issue pointed out by Ruth Macklin, we look at the problems that can arise when an individual’s culture and autonomy clash. Every year there at least 30 million immigrants from all over the world that move to the United states of America, making America one of the most culturally diverse country in the world. Keeping this in mind, we will focus on Ruth Macklin’s issue of Multiculturalism. Multiculturalism is the co-existence of diverse cultures, where culture includes racial, religious, or cultural groups and is manifested in customary behaviors, cultural assumptions and values, patterns of thinking, and communicative styles. Critics argue that we associate culture with a society, community and or family, but rarely with a single individual, thus placing it above the individual person. In this paper we are going to look at four different scenarios on from Ruth Macklin’s article.

Texas political culture is one that can be described as a combination of three main ideas: individualistic, traditionalism and moralism. Considering Texas and its overwhelming 254 counties we can see these main ideas undoubtedly. The 254 counties each have their own general set of ideas, attitudes and beliefs. The whole state of Texas is simply not just considered individualistic, traditionalism, or moralism, it is considered all three. Individualistic, traditionalism and moralism are all strong values that coexist in our society and they all affect how we as the people live our lives. A political culture shapes a region’s politics.

Moralistic cultures spend excessive amounts of currency on services and tend to be vastly competitive in party competition (Smith & Greenblatt , 2016). “Citizens actively participate in voting and other political activates in moralistic cultures” (Smith & Greenblatt , 2016). Daniel Elazar allegations about the essence of moralistic culture originated from religious groups that migrated from Europe to pursue their own ideal community (Smith & Greenblatt , 2016). Correspondingly, the website The American Partnership recorded that Daniel Elazar mentioned the migrating Europeans essentially intended to create a society based on religious principles and governments utilize their authority to address societal conundrums. California, Idaho, Michigan, Kansas, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Montana, Minnesota, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, Colorado, North Dakota, and South Dakota have moralistic political culture. To conclude, moralistic cultures are established in the northern parts of America (The American Partnership, 2013).

Political culture reflects the political ethics and convictions of people, not only around the United States of America but also all over the world. The people believe that the government is responsible for the type of services (like education, health care, community services, etc.) that they are entitled too; therefore, if the outcome is not good the political system has failed. There are three different political cultures: moral, traditional, and individualist. The State of Texas has a mix from all the cultures; however, traditional and individualist cultures seem to predominate.

Politics in the United States is a complex structure that is comprised of many systems. While most of these systems appear to work well, there are a few that are broken. A perfect example of a broken system is the district boundaries and the likelihood of gerrymandering. Multiple states across the country are subjected to gerrymandering, which is the act of dividing a county into election districts that provide one political party with an unfair advantage over the other. Gerrymandering is used to help or prevent a particular demographic from gaining adequate representation. In Florida, for example, there is controversy over Congressional District 5, which extends from Jacksonville down to Orlando in a way that creates a “minority-majority” district.

The state legislature of Florida is partisan whereby legislators are allied mostly to the democratic and republic parties or other smaller ones. A bill has to go through both chambers before it becomes law and it can then be forwarded to the governor for consideration. If the governor chooses to veto the bill, his decision can only be overturned by a 2/3 majority. In Nebraska, only 25 members of the Senate need to vote in favor of a bill for it to become law while 30 votes against can filibuster or veto a bill (Miewald 74). To override a governor’s veto in Nebraska, 33 members of the legislation need to vote in favor. In addition to being unicameral, the Nebraska legislature is the only non-partisan legislative body in the United States of America (Miewald and Longo 76). The Nebraska state Legislature is unique in that there are no formal party alignments but coalitions are formed based on a legislator's philosophy of the government, the constituency they represent and the geographical area they come

Florida has always been a beautiful state aligned with unique natural wonders which has made it a location of wonder within the U.S. Even with Florida’s majestic natural appeal the state in its territorial years struggled with its public image as Indian attacks were common place in the region along with yellow fever and environmental phenomena such as hurricanes. Following in the end of the Seminole and the Civil war Florida began to search for a new identity and sense of prosperity in the face of massive changes to its economy and societal structure. With the advent of new technologies, the borders of Florida for the first time were opened to larger encompassing audience of visitors from all over the country who came to marvel at the natural landscape and relax in the temperate weather. Gary Mormino author of “Land of Sunshine State of Dreams” described in his book the factors and obstacles which challenged and ultimately propelled Florida to experience monumental growth in the 20th century. From the rapid use of automobiles to the creation of the magic Kingdom Florida has numerous factors to acknowledge when recognizing its recent success in America. While Gary Mormino book makes no effort to shy away from the less favorable aspects Florida history including the financial struggles of the early nineties, his book is clearly portraying an optimistic tone which echoes the glories of Florida’s past and future.

A political culture is mainly referred to as the shared values and beliefs of the citizens on the topic of political and economic life that reflects the fundamental assumptions about how government should operate and function as a society. Although the people share the framework of values, beliefs, and habits of behavior related to government and politics, the reference as to how the judging is to be viewed is how the relationship is between the government and the people, obligations to the government, limits on government authority, and the rights and responsibility to the people. A political subculture can change over time given that Texas has a political context of big, and the diversity in Texas it is possible for Texas to be able to contain

6-7. There are several different cultural groups in the United State other than the one represented by the author of the document. These groups might be regional, national, or global in nature. (6) Identify one or more of these cultural groups and (7) explain how they might react to this document.

Florida is a popular state when discussing political controversy. The media rushes to Florida during congressional and presidential elections due to its reputation as a conflicted state. Here we find the southern regions to be rather liberal and voting democratically, and on the other hand, we see the northern regions voting mostly conservatively. This creates controversy in the United States because Florida is a major determining factor of what kind of outcome we are going to get for a presidential election. This can be especially stressful for those running for office either presidentially or for the state specifically because they are unaware of their chances of gaining the states support and being elected into office.

Florida became United States territory in the year of 1821 and it consisted of just two counties known as Escamba to the West and St. Johns to the East divided by the Suwanee River and all other counties were created from those two original counties. Although Florida was United States territory it wasn’t until the year of 1845 that it became the 27th state. Florida currently has a total of 67 counties. The last county was introduced in 1925 which is Gilchrist County which was named after Florida’s governor Albert W. Gilchrist who served from 1909 to 1913. Florida counties are subdivisions of the state government. All of Florida’s counties are incorporated

Born and raised in Miami I have always been exposed to the variety and uniqueness of everyone living in the city. What intrigues me the most about people in Miami is the story behind them such as who they are, what they do, and where they come from? Even though Miami to me is very diverse in gender, race and culture, I have always wondered how deep diversity runs through this city. In order to understand the core of diversity in Miami-Dade County, I analyzed statistical and research facts on the population, race, gender, generations, education and overall poverty.

Different ideologies tend to appeal to different demographic characteristics such as gender, class, race, etc. because a person’s background will affect which system of ideas they most closely align with. Liberalism and conservatism, for example, are ideologies that regularly contradict each other, because they appeal to different demographics based upon many factors such as class, race, gender, religion, etc. The general worldview of liberalism is that people have individual rights and liberty, while promoting progress. On the other hand, conservatism places greater importance of keeping tradition and strict regulation of rules. In determining the extent of appeal to different demographics, one must assess the ways in which both ideologies

Even though there are set values that are universally known to the public, people do not always follow those values within their groups. However, these people have to act in conformity and abide by the values in public. Although everyone assumes that “imagined communities” contain a common culture, in reality, they really do not due to the fact that there are many body of ideas and practices that are not shared. Many languages are spoken and countless number of religions are practiced in various countries, so these make the “common culture” idea a misconception among citizens of different countries. For example, people tend to think that America consists of culture that is common, but they do not know if the beliefs, values, and practices are universally shared by all Americans. Nonetheless, there was a time when a dominant culture in the United States actually existed. It was during when the religion of Christianity was prominent and when many countries in Europe spoke the English language. It should be known that black Americans, Chinese-Americans, and white Americans have a common culture because of everything they do and do not share. From the common culture would arise the social identity, which can cause problems in diversity. Diversity can be an issue because of the ignorance of all the contrasting values. These issues arise because racial and ethnic identities are compared to one another and both can also relate to genders and sexualities. Nevermore, distinct genders and sexualities often live together now with the same knowledge and values and can still grow into opposite racial identities. Ethnic identities are so different since they are created in family and community life and people want the solidarity from being unique to one